Tuesday, March 1, 2016

April 4 - 8

April 4
Thompson
Read one of the following articles and write a reactive post to the material.  Use the subject line "Addictions."  

April 5-6
ASPIRE Testing

April 7
Kipling
"The Conversion of Aurelian McGoggin"
"IF"
Write your own "IF" poem mimicking the structure and post it to your blog with the subject line "A Poem Inspired by Kipling"

The Nobel Prize in Literature 1907 was awarded to Rudyard Kipling "in consideration of the power of observation, originality of imagination, virility of ideas and remarkable talent for narration which characterize the creations of this world-famous author"

March 28 - April 1

March 28
Carroll
"The White Queen's Riddle"
Email me the correct answer to "The White Queen's Riddle" (five clues are given) and list one of two "ironic, unexpected twists" in "The Walrus and the Carpenter." Please use the subject line "Answer to the White Queen's Riddle"


March 29
Skype meeting at 8pm
Hardy
"The Three Strangers"

Bonus Opportunity
Summarize "The Three Strangers" into an original aphorism and create a "beautiful typography art picture" of it using QuotesCover. Post it to your blog with the subject line "Hardy" 
Give examples of foreshadowing and irony from "The Three Strangers." Post using the subject line "Foreshadowing and Irony in The Three Strangers"

March 30
Hopkins
"Pied Beauty"
"God's Grandeur"
"Pied Beauty" is best read aloud due to the unique diction and meter. Record yourself reading the poem aloud and embed it in your blog with the subject line "Hopkins." Please also include one example of alliteration, assonance, internal rhyme, or rhythm from "God's Grandeur" in text format in the post

March 31
Housman
"When I Was One and Twenty"
"To An Athlete Dying Young"
"Eight O'Clock"
"They Say My Verse Is Sad"
Create a storyboard for one of the Housman poems in your textbook and post it (depending on how you create it, you may have to scan it in as an image or upload it as a PDF) to your blog with the subject line "Housman." Please also include a copy of the original poem in your post

April 1
Hanalani Writes

Resources
Understanding Alice

March 21 - 25

March 21-25
Spring Break

March 14 - 18

March 14
Robert Browning
"My Last Duchess
Listen to the audio version of the poem and draw a portrait of the woman being described. Embed your masterpiece to your blog with the subject line "My Last Duchess" and include a brief explanation of your artwork
Grow old along with me!
The best is yet to be,
The last of life, for which the first was made:
Our times are in his hand
Who saith, "A whole I planned,
Youth shows but half; trust God: see all, nor be afraid!''
Rabbi Ben Ezra


March 15
Skype meeting at 8pm
Elizabeth Barrett Browning
Elizabeth Barrett Browning: Style, Subject and Reception
Sonnet 43

Bonus Opportunity
Mimic E. Browning's use of similes in writing a free-verse poem sharing your love to someone or something. You must include 5 or more similes in this poem. You may copy the style of Browning, or you may use your own. Post to your blog with the subject line "Love Similes"



March 16
Arnold
"Dover Beach"
Create and embed your audioBoom (works best with Firefox) using the subject line "Arnold audioBoom."  Listen to the player below for specific instructions



March 17
Rossetti
"Uphill"
Use PowToon as the storytelling medium to share a time where you personally went through a trial or difficulty. Include the verses that God used to encourage you through that time (or in hindsight). Post your "story" to your blog with the subject line "Have I Not Striven"

March 18
Hanalani Writes

Resources
Elizabeth Barrett Browning and the Woman Question

March 7 - 11

March 7
Carlyle
"The Hero as Divinity" and "The Hero as a Poet" (On Heroes, Hero-Worship, and the Heroic in History)
Create an ideal hero using a web tool of your choice (i.e. HeroMachine) and embed the image on your blog. Include a description of the hero as well as an appropriate quotation from the reading (you may have to explain the connection between your quotation and created hero). Use the subject line "Carlyle Hero"

I am convinced that a light supper, a good night's sleep, and a fine morning, have sometimes made a hero of the same man, who, by an indigestion, a restless night, and rainy morning, would have proved a coward."  

Lord Chesterfield, British statesman

March 8
Skype meeting at 8:00pm
Newman
From The Tamworth Reading Room

Bonus Opportunity
Create an online survey and compile the results for the following question: what "...must be made the element and principle of all education"? Please post your survey and the results (include at least ten participants and consider adding a personal summative piece to tie it all together) using the subject line "Newman Survey" 

March 9
Tennyson Introduction
"Crossing the Bar"
"Kapiolani"
Use Tagxedo or TagCrowd to symbolize one of Tennyson's poems.  Embed it to your blog with the poem's title as the subject line



March 10
Third Quarter ePortfolio; make changes based on previous suggestions, clean up Twitter and blog posts, and add SpeakPipe. Please send me an email with a marked rubric that shows the points you believe you deserve for each category and the total amount of points you have given your work. Additionally, include the reasons why you have designated the category points that you have (the comments may be textual or audio)

Bonus Opportunity
Create an audio post in which you share what you've learned this quarter and post it to your blog with the subject line "Third Quarter Reflection"

March 11
Hanalani Writes

Resources